CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY

CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY is one of the medium-sized secondary schools in HIALEAH, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, with 1,002 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12.

MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY is among them.

On demographics, CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY shows that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 82% of students at CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 40.0%; this one delivers 66.1%, a residual of +26.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 59.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site. CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 22%: 824 students in 2018 compared to 1,002 in 2025.

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